The Bonfire of the Humanities
The Nightmare World of Musk.
Orwell vindicated daily.
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‘The Power of Pathocracy’
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I asked for years, with no results except accusations of ‘antisemitism’ & ‘trolling’, whatever THAT is Not a single quote or clip of @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social
which would stand up in court The charge that labour was ‘systemically’ racist was also a farce. Depending on a zionist definition of racism
Bill @billn.bsky.social · 2d
And no one was able to point to a single anti-Semitic statement made by Corbyn at any time in his life.
14:58 · 14 Dec 2025
Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 13:06 In response to ndl4321
Simple.
Just provide a healthy, real society to overcome the obsession with sick, fake fantasy-worlds which should be out-grown by the age of 7.
Meet a real social need with a social society. Which would kill several birds with one stone.
Why not?
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 13:01 In response to TheWickerMan
The online fake community has to replaced by a real community.
In fact, the entire concept of community has to be rediscovered, and rescued from perpetual demonisation by the usual suspects.
The damage of 60 years of rancid anti-social consumerism has to be undone. Meaning radical solutions in all directions. A return to rational politics.
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 12:36
Removing the dead virtual playground from children can only ever succeed if an alternative real playground is restored to them.
If the Childhood denied to the last 3 generations can be reborn or reinvented. One which encourages genuine socialisation and interaction with reality. Without toxic AI, which parents of its developers are already denying to their kids, and which every billionaire oligarch demands be allowed to roam unregulated.
Why would they want that?
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Australia’s social media ban has given us a way to fight big tech – and get my son back on his skateboard
13 Dec 2025 12:29 In response to longist
And if everyone was perfect the world would be perfect.
In the meantime, in the real world, children have to be protected somehow from predators and billionaire brain poison.
The minority of gatekeeper parents are merely rocks thrown in the river of sewage, when a dam is needed. Only a government can build it.
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Russia is now an economic basket case because of Putin’s war. And millions of boys have died needlessly. How long do you think the ‘Grey Masses’ will carry on slaughtering their children on the altar of Putin?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You surrender the future to Putin if you want. Don’t demand that Ukrainians do the same. Or the rest of Europe after being dismantled back into petty feuding nationalisms ripe for picking by Trump and Putin. Leading to the Great Grab of the remains of a Russia destroyed by Putin.
Rob Kenyon
@biginaboxCorbyn had the chance to form a formidable alliance with the Greens, SNP and half the LIbdems and blew it. Politics has moved on from tribalism. The radical (i.e. RATIONAL ) political world has to unite around the founding values of #Humanism. Easy to defend, impossible to oppose
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
When Finkelstein has experienced the conditions of the workers he castigates, and their actions, he will have the right to pass an opinion. Until then he has to obey the democratically expressed will of the workforce As do all who presume to impose a value the lives of others.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You have to ignore child abuse because it’s SYSTEMIC in Power-Worshipping deathbed capitalism. Which must be perfect and must last forever. A medium for Losers who know their lives are lost and must revenge themselves on the powerless. Child-abusers are obeying Trump’s Law.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Time for all with Humanist values to unite under the banner of Humanism. The universally understood common ideology which barbarians cannot refute. Force them to be ‘Anti-Humanist’ – which they are. Destroying the ecosystem is NOT ‘Humanist’. All other policies write themselves.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Israel is now a ‘Torahnic State’. Like Iran, only Jewish.
A bronze Age myth forced on the modern world with predictable results.
irac.org
Ben gvir Qoutes — The Israel Religious Action Center (IRAC)
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
“They were offered their half”...?
Listen to yourself. You mean they were told to get out of half their land.
Land they’d occupied and civilised while Abram was still driving goats and shagging servant girls.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The war began with Zionist land-grabs in 1948. ‘From the river to the sea’ if Likud had its way. Extermination of the racially impure from The ‘Holy’ land.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Genocidal, psychopathic misanthropy. Bronze-Age Messianic Death-worship. The Zionazis are re-enacting Rome’s crimes under Hadrian (‘god rot his bones’).
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
When a veteran actually blames the capitalist origins of all war, rather than merely condemning its horrors, we shall have made some progress.
The truth of how the war-machine works will have begun to sink in.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Since when did Racism have a hierarchy? Which you are at the top of?
‘Criticism of Israel comparable with that of another country cannot be treated as antisemitism’ (IHRA Working Definition)
Israel is a racist, fascist war-state which will never see peace. Like Putin’s Russia.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Christian Spain was the direct result of the Roman conquest. How bloodless was that, exactly?
Primitive territorial conflict was inevitable before mechanisation. But now there are no real shortages of anything, Machiavelli was wrong.
Modern wars are only needed to preserve wars.
And then there was the Spanish inquisition, and its genocide of Jews and anyone who hadn’t sent the Pope a birthday card. Religion – so it goes. So-called ‘Christians’ and ‘Jews’ have been industrially slaughtering Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists without impunity for centuries
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
‘It could be claimed…that the most important part of Marx’s theory is ..in the saying: ‘Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also’ (Matt. 6:21)..that laws religions & moral codes are a superstructure built over existing property relations..’ https://telelib.com/authors/O/OrwellGeorge/essay/tribune/AsIPlease19440225.html
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Which essay is this from? Not done to grasp quotes from thin air. “because a society of free and equal human beings has never existed, it never can exist. By the same argument one could have demonstrated the impossibility of aeroplanes in 1900”
orwellfoundation.com
Second Thoughts on James Burnham | The Orwell Foundation
“It is curious that in all his talk about the struggle for power, Burnham never stops to ask why people want power.”
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Trump is the descendant of Burnham’s Power-Worshipping, anti-Humanist managerialism. Orwell. “The question that he ought to ask..is: Why does the lust for naked power become a major human motive exactly now, when the dominion of man over man is ceasing to be necessary? ”
https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/second-thoughts-on-james-burnham/
20 Nov 2025, 00:15
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Verbal Language changes constantly. Written – not so much. The state of standard written prose has stabilised nicely over the last century. Like the design of the gentleman’s suit. (Excluding grotesque corporate uniform speech and dialect). The language of Thought is constant. 2+2=4.
20 Nov 2025, 00:02
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
At times like this, thoughts turn to what 2026 will probably be like After a Washington-backed Russian Anschluss of Ukraine With 2Million starving, traumatised people in the rubble of Gaza, and the Israeli election creating desperate tactics by Nutteryahoo Then there’s the stroke heading Trump’s way
19 Nov 2025, 23:54
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The hideous, impenetrable cacophony of words produced by many people when they try to write would be straightened out if they were to read their work aloud before posting. A surefire way to discover if it makes sense. After that, just avoid all pretentious jargon, and most people can be understood.
19 Nov 2025, 23:44
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Corporate Newspeak combined with internet babytalk and the reversion to primitive pictographic communication is destroying language. And with it rational thought. It really is that bad. If not, Trump would merely be an obscure record in the bankruptcy files. And not the Anti-Truth psychopathic he is.
19 Nov 2025, 23:29
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Tramp to Surrender Europe to Putin. Deserves the biggest headline since the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. Those are the stakes. Ask Poland, Finland, and the Baltic State. And any country that existed behind the Iron Curtain. www.flickr.com/photos/bigin…
LENINGRAD NOVEMBER 1978www.flickr.com
19 Nov 2025, 23:09
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It blights the futures of any children born here. Why should they invest in an uncertain future?
It is also a huge hostage to fortune. The next tory madhouse could use it to deport thousands on a whim – or ‘reports’ by informers about their ‘un-British’ lifestyles.
19 Nov 2025, 16:36
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The BBC, with its Zionist sponsored placements like Robbie Gibb, has overseen the greatest dereliction of journalistic duty in the BBCs history. Giving a green light to Zionist genocide, Trumpist insanity and Faragist fascism. Letting their lies go unchallenged.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Unless the leakers are threatened with the butcher’s block and acid bath, like whistleblowers on Tramp’s new best buddy. What’s going to protect them? A CIA witness protection program?
19 Nov 2025, 16:11
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘C.I.A.? – FAKE NEWS!’ The message to enemies of the USA is that Tramp ignores his Intel. The Bunker mentality grows deeper. A massive security breach is just a matter of time. Handed on a plate by a Traitor.
19 Nov 2025, 13:29
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A ‘stretch’? You’re tolerant. A LIE would be the truth. Any words or actions critical of Zionist nationalism are spun as ‘antisemitic’ – a SUPERIOR form of racism reserved exclusively for ‘the chosen’. How racist can you get? Plus the despicable debasement of a once-noble word.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Immigrants are just as vulnerable to industrialised lies as the ‘native’ population. Like this caller. PLUS, they are undoubtedly intimidated by the tide of racism to appease racist thuggery and lies. Like this Home Secretary.
18 Nov 2025, 14:23
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
AI is the delusion of a personal earthly Utopia which will sacrifice of our precious future enewable energy capital on the altar of competitive profit. Making the real world a Hellholle. A ‘Dystopia’. A de-Humanising brain-cancer which, untamed, will shrink our brains to pre-Stone Age dimensions.
18 Nov 2025, 14:00
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Tramp has launched blanket bogus Federal cases against Democrats in order to make may files sub-judice, and heavily redacted. And if he wants, he can simply veto release. Who would bet against it? How many Republicans would DO anything about it?
18 Nov 2025, 12:45
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Out of curiosity, what’s the difference between your right and left hands? The point is that the terms are meaningless. Without any reference to the real world. Good luck giving a Martian directions to the post office. Not to mention the cultural bias.
biginabox.com/2021/03/02/w…
WORD DUSTBIN 2: ‘LEFT’ AND ‘RIGHT’
In every newspaper and website the political squabbling drags on, and two words are largely guilty of miring it in the muck. In every newspaper and website the political squabbling drags on, and tw…biginabox.com
17 Nov 2025, 20:44
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
No mystery here. The EU is the greatest threat to Manbaby’s fantasies. He has to reduce it to a collection of bickering little countries again. A fellow-psychopath like Orban is a perfect tapeworm in EU unity. But he is threatened at the polls. So has to call on his Gangster friends for a ‘favour’.
16 November 2025 at 21:31
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Or. He could be a closet-Trot bank-clerk with a fearsome boss desperate for an excuse to sack him. Privacy does enable free thought and speech. The list of writers who adopted a Nom de Plume is long and illustrious. And most had good reasons.
Big content is taking on AI – but it’s far from the David v Goliath tale they’d have you believe
15 Nov 2025 11:43
In response to WolfgangAlone
This Nerd Battle is between two vast carbon footprints devoted to pure profit.
The sacrifice of our precious renewable energy capital on the altar of Sleaze-Biz.
When they have colluded to destroy the ecosystem and civilisation, ‘art’ will be a distant memory. A collection of charred relics poking through the ashes.
Any surviving humans still subjecting themselves to AI will find their brains withering back to the size of their pre-Paleolithic ancestors, who hadn’t yet discovered how to change the world with their hands.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘Pop Culture’ is not actively attempting to do anything but make money. But by merely doing so it carries on with its wholesale narcosis. Ensuring cultural inertia and indifference. Ending up with apathy about truth itself, which becomes just another consumer product. Bought & sold by the pound.
14 November 2025 at 21:17
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Right too about the taboo on Climate science in U.S. media. Now climatologists know how socialists have felt for the last 60 years.
14 Nov 2025, 20:28
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They can never say when this mythical Golden Age of theirs was.
Before antibiotics? Universal Suffrage? Mass education? Pensions? When?
The truth is they don’t have a time in mind as much as a state – of permanent war.
Which is what nationalism boils down to.
14 November 2025 at 16:49
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
14 Nov 2025 14:14
In response to GeorgeMonbiot
Why else is Putin in Ukraine?
The Carbonists are fighting to retain their ‘right’ to poison the planet, and understandably see the falling prices of renewables as a threat.
If Ukraine defeats the Kremlin oil-giant and its allies, it means a victory over imposed consumption of fossil fuels. Which is why Trump won’t help Ukraine.
The invention of AI is another front in the war against sustainability. Designed to eat up future energy credit before it is even generated.
An explicit political agenda for the toxic status quo. View discussion
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
14 Nov 2025 14:05
I cannot think of an occasion on which anyone at the BBC has had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger.
I cannot think of an occasion on which the BBC has presented a ‘leftwinger’, except as a cartoon.
There has never been a documentary on the oldest political instinct in existence. Some form of egalitarianism can be traced back to earliest settled life.
Only now has the BBC re-aired its ’70s discussion on Marx, the philosopher. And even that has to be shared with Hegel…
Humanist politics is taboo on all British media. Against the constant barrage of capitalist propaganda spewed out by the infantile Entertainment industry, and the advertising Goebells of Charlotte Street. Poisoning everything they touch. View discussion
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
London has a HUGE problem. It’s called Capitalism. It’s symptoms are everywhere. And it is being demonised by the Arch-Prophets of – Capitalism! You couldn’t make it up.
14 November 2025 at 12:52
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Another word that means the opposite of its use. Surely a person who tortures children is a ‘Paedo-phobe‘. Someone who hates or has an irrational fear of children.
By rights, a ‘paedophile‘ ‘loves’ children, and childhood.. As in ‘Francophile’, Audiophile’, ‘Oenophile’…
13 November 2025 at 18:43
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
There are many unanswered questions.
But the unasked question is: ‘What is the cause of child-abuse?’ What makes these people feel pleasure at inflicting pain?
The fact nobody is interested implies that the answer would not be welcome.
It might overturn the power-worshipping, dog-eat-dog status-quo.
13 November 2025 at 18:35
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Just a technicality, but exactly where would this ‘case’ be heard? What court would preside? I would suggest the Rhetorik department at Oxford. www.english.ox.ac.uk/publication/…
Rhetoric and Lawwww.english.ox.ac.uk
13 November 2025 at 15:59
How should we tackle Reform and the rise of the far right? Our Gen Z panel has some ideas
13 Nov 2025 14:30
Emphasis the positive, eliminate the negative, and don’t mess with Mister Inbetween.
Don’t be ‘anti-racist’. Be HUMANIST.
Purge elitist pretentious technobabble like ‘meme’ and ‘trope. Likewise meaningless babytalk like ‘woke’.
Make words have concrete meanings again.
“The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.”
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
“the B.B.C. is relatively truthful .. does not disseminate lies simply because they are ‘newsy’ ..untrue statements are ..broadcast .. But in most cases this is due to genuine error, the B.B.C. sins .. more by avoiding anything controversial than by direct propaganda”
www.telelib.com/authors/O/Or…
21 April 1944 – As I Please – George Orwell, Book, etextwww.telelib.com
12 November 2025 at 23:25
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They suffer from Commercial-Withdrawal symptoms. A form of ADHD, culturally-induced by a century of relentless profit-propaganda from cradle to grave and on every street corner.
The messages:
CONSUME. CONFORM. OBEY.
No Time for LOSERS.
12 November 2025 at 12:35
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The accurate term for the civilised values hated by Trump and His Goats is HUMANIST. Being a movement of political ‘Antis’ is a recipe for defeat. Negatives are not a credible political agenda.
12 November 2025 at 11:15
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It’s all part of the systemic obliteration of language. & with it rational thought The replacement of real words with concrete visual associations by elitist abstract gibberish. Either dribbling babytalk or pretentious tecnobable like meme’n’trope, or outright perversion. ‘Radical’ for ‘Terrorist.’
12 November 2025 at 11:12
I wish we could ignore Bill Gates on the climate crisis. But he’s a billionaire, so we can’t
8 Nov 2025 12:36
At the moment, there is no doubt that the war to preserve civilisation between Carbonism and Humanism is being lost, mainly because the effects of climate change are still academic for most people. In addition, the consequences of adopting the radical policies necessary are too scary. They mean the end of the Consumerist fantasy-identity they have become addicted to. A Utopia which Gates godfathered.
Only hard experience can tip the balance of opinion away from denialism. The sooner the better.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Corbyn could have worked with Greens & ScotsNats. The numbers were right. And with European partners, a Fact Campaign would have scuppered Brexit, and everything after. But Corbyn was never the man for the job. Pacifists have no grasp of politics in the real world.
11 November 2025 at 11:59
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I despair at blind adherence to ancient party tribalisms at the expense of a genuine Humanist Alliance which would be impossible to demonise. Corbyn had the chance, but blew it. ww.theguardian.com/commentisfre…
What happens if the Greens overtake Labour in the polls? All bets are off | Gaby Hinsliff
They may lack Labour’s party machine, but Zack Polanski’s burgeoning popularity could have seismic consequences for British politics, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliffwww.theguardian.com
11 November 2025 at 11:56
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Better than you, you shameless billionaire poodle AND your squalid, Bookie-Backed outlet.
Done any documentaries on gambling addiction yet? And how it destroys families? While taking money from the Numbers Racket?
The shady doings of any of your quasi-gangster sponsors?
George Gale was a liar too
11 November 2025 at 11:11
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
I never saw Othello as a villain. That’s Iago. Othello is a tragic victim. Undone by human flaws. The question of his ‘guilt’ becomes the legacy of the play.
All great art asks questions that time tries to answer, but only produces more questions.
9 November 2025 at 11:55
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The species Homo Sapiens evolved due to a key USP. Evolutionary geneticists call it ‘Human Reciprocal Altruism’. It’s the co-operative instinct that fosters a spectrum of socialisation from caring to queuing. The Human values which can produce a Humane society.
People are not just overgrown amoeba.
9 November 2025 at 11:38
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
He probably won more votes with his middle-aged rapping than by holding workshops in class-consciousness. Mainly because he didn’t hold any, or he might have realised that the only ‘identity’ that counts is Class Identity. The current Identity Circus is a gift to the Barbarians. A suicide note.
9 November 2025 at 11:49
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You’re living a fantasy. The USA is chronically incapable of understanding socialism. And why should it?
A radical new direction does not mean party hacks playing verbiage tennis over dialectical materialism.
It means a bonfire of the old slogans & dogmas and a rebirth of clear thought and language.
8 November 2025 at 16:43
Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 16:22
In response to ochongodeo
Which illustrates absolutely nothing.
Until the language of political debate escapes academic abstractions and makes contact with the real world, the barbarians will win.
The Resistance has to turn from being a negative entity, perpetually ‘anti’ everything bad, and assert its own values.
Humanist values.. Check them out. They are a natural sale – to Humans..
Promote and identify with them and the tide could turn.
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Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 16:06
In response to eamonmcc
‘Conscience’?
Crikey! How quaint.
Like a word rusting in the corner of an agricultural fair. Waiting for Jack Hargreaves.
No successful politician since the steam engine could afford to be diverted by laws or the suffering of others. ‘Morality’ is merely a series of excuses for the status quo.
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Selling the left’s message in the digital age is an art – Ireland’s new president mastered it
30 Oct 2025 15:56
Selling the word ‘Left’ is a loser anywhere.
Firstly, it’s meaningless pettifogging, designed to cloud political thought. Best of luck to the Martian asking for directions. ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are merely anthropocentric orientations derived from our bilaterally-symmetrical morphology, and not designed to navigate our political environment.
Secondly, western culture is entirely biased against it. In several languages.
Right – ‘adroit’, ‘dextrous’,
Left – ‘Cackhanded’, gauche’.. sinister, hm? All the way up to Michaelangelo’s Last Judgement.
‘Humanism’ means something real to everyone. Who would dare challenge it?
Let the barbarians reveal themselves.
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:20
In response to PhilWebster
Sometimes more subtly, as in the case of Western “liberal democracies”.
That is ‘capitalist-democracies‘, the ultimate contradiction in terms, where power is sold to the highest bidder.
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:07 In response to jp1203
‘You claim that the left‘
You mean Humanist?
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From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles
29 Oct 2025 11:05
The collapse of Consumerism is well-predicted, and this is what it looks like.
Global wars, famine, dictatorships and environmental catastrophe.
Those aware of this reality would take control of the debate by asserting their Humanist values, and daring anyone to oppose them. Being ‘anti-this or that or the other will not do.
Neither will dividing the resistance by ‘Identity Politics’
The only ‘Identity’ that counts is Class Identity. Humanism is the future, or else.
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BAE systems cuts AID flights to pay for 5% N.A.T.O. Spending.
21.50. 25/10/2025
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/24/bae-ends-support-atp-aircraft-caa-airworthiness-aid-deliveries-south-sudan-somalia-drc
The starving to die to pay for the bombs to kill others.
Record profits recorded by BAE Systems last year.
The Man-Baby’s obsession with war unmasked as another attack on social democracy.
Combined with his Aid war against the world:
Malaria Cuts risk 525 million more cases, 990,000 more deaths
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/21/global-health-infectious-disease-aid-cuts-malaria-funding-cost-deaths-gdp-africa
The mad fantasy seems to be glinting in his skull that ‘solving’ the global over-population problem by exterminating the vulnerable and worthless would be a great way to win a Nobel Prize. Who could object? The Man Who Saved The World! (by killing billions of babies)
France is not alone in its crisis of political faith – belief in a democratic world is vanishing
12 Oct 2025 13:38
With all due respect, faith in a ‘democratic’ world is not vanishing.
The creed which is no longer credible is the blatant contradiction in terms of ‘capitalist-democracy’, where power is sold to the highest bidder. A cesspit of corruption most honest people recoil in disgust from.
The dilemma for Humanists who still believe in civilisation is to create a viable future based on sustainable cooperation without humiliating the ‘Identity’ of those completely invested in a status quo sliding easily and comfortably into barbarism.
Barbarism is much easier to invoke than cooperation.
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Define “leftism”.
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LittleRichardjohn
9 September 2025
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It’s like Rugby reborn. Washed clean of sin. In the words of the old Welsh invitation:
“Mi glywaf dyner lais,
Yn galw arnaf fi,
I ddod a golchi ‘meiau gyd,
Yn afon Calfari.
Arglwydd, dyma fi
Ar dy alwad di,
Golch fi’n burlan yn y gwaed
A gaed ar Galfari.”
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There is no ‘thought’ at all in what you laughably call the ‘political right’. It is not a rational ideology but a string of phobias and myths held together by corruption and intimidation. It was always doomed to fail.
As it has.
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If Farage and his Goats want total disclosure of the ethnicity of all suspects, fine.
The gutter press will be so crammed with lists of white, male offenders there won’t be room for the property ads.
And Farage lies will be stuffed down his throat by the facts.
Refusal by the gutter press to publish these facts will be a genuine ‘cover up’. But only an extension of the collective media immigration lie of the last 30 years.
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‘MISTER’ Trump doesn’t have the ‘measure’ of anything.
Trump just ran into the stone wall of his own ego, is all.
His constant internal monologue tells him he is omniscient and omnipotent.
Putin just thwarted his Xmas day expectations and the result is predictably infantile.
As are all his responses to the real world. How he will react to the record bombardment of Ukraine next weekend is anyone’s guess.
Blame Ukraine and ‘wash his hands’ with an air of superiority, would be a good bet.
End of an Era.
I made ‘constructive debate’ impossible by “off-topic contrarianism.”
Such power!!
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When rap fans start quoting the lyrics of their idols, the sooner the curious will stop asking them to.
Until then, and some sort of coherent case is made, Rap is a smokescreen, and a contradiction in terms. A lecture, not a conversation – not a ‘rap’. With more than a hint of Minstrelsy.
Clipse: Let God Sort Em Out review – reunited rap greats deliver one of the albums of the year
10 Jul 2025 16:43
In response to Stillgrizzly
‘Overrated’?
That’s one word for allegedly world-changing words which nobody ever quotes..
Like the Emperor’s New Bling.
I just got removed for asking for the 10 most memorable rap lyrics.
Can you believe it?
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 15:10
In response to davedave747
Ah the good old ‘If God Had meant Us To Fly he Would Have Given us Wings.‘
Ah the good old ‘We’ve never known it better so it never can be.‘
Make What succeed?
You don’t even know what you’re denying?
The scientific fact is that your Consumerist Utopia is a cancer whose only ‘success’ since eliminating the Divine Right of Kings will be to make civilisation impossible, and human life itself a struggle worthy of the Ice Ages.
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 14:24
In response to davedave747
How socialist was the USSR’s electrified Neo-Czarism?
As Christian as the Spanish Inquisition.
This knee-jerk association of opposite ideologies is one of the marvels of the British Education system
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By learning to wield political power, Greens could fill the void at the heart of British politics
10 Jul 2025 11:54
Socialists and Environmentalists can’t see the wood for the trees, or the natural alliance for the labels. Both are natural enemies of Consumerism. Both espouse Humanitarian egalitarianism. Get a room.
If Marx had known about the Greenhouse Effect, C20th history would have been very different.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:20
In response to Voiceofreason7
You don’t understand..
Britain is in a desperate life or death struggle with the rest of the world. Every ounce of physical and mental power must be harnessed to the Great Competitive Effort in the global growth race. A race Britain must win at all costs.
Childhood is just a minor sacrifice.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:14
In response to Klytie
The nuclear family is not now and never has been the formula for a healthy society.
Since its invention with the steam engine and class-system, it is one of the key factors in creating the state we’re in now.
So look around.
I know I was ‘raised’ by my village. It was a community.
Not a dormitory for functionaries.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 15:08
In response to HarrytheHawk
As long as parents are enslaved by their mortgage repayments, and their children forced to over-share bedrooms, the property industry will be a tapeworm to any attempts by government to provide true social housing, a National Housing Service, if you like, to add to the other two leg in the tripod of Health and Youth.
If you don’t ask for everything you need, you never get anything.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 12:11
In response to labourgooner
Founded, as it is, on the release of ‘feel-good’ hormones in the brain, so-called ‘Socialism’ is perfectly teachable as a module in GCSE human biology under the Endocrine system.
It also appears in Paleo-genetic studies as ‘Human Social Reciprocal Altruism’.
The reason Homo-Sapiens rules.
No need for ‘dialectical materialism’ at all. or anything to scare the golf club.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 11:59
A National Youth Service is just as essential as the National Health Service.
In fact, the health of the nation depends largely on how we socialise our children.
The original NHS was never designed to heal sicknesses caused by an alienated, dysfunctional population – or those instigated by ruthless Junk-food corporations.
A system which teaches little people not to be afraid of each other is the basis of all true civilisations.
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government
7 Jul 2025 11:51
Fine.
Now just start defusing the Property Fetish by abolishing the toxic Right to Buy scam, and Labour will be on the path to finding its true vocation and true congregation.
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The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell
6 Jul 2025 17:09
It’s easy enough to find entry-level reading material consisting of simple, unambiguous mono or bi-syllabic words. Longer words become second nature by familiarity and basic syllabic lego.
No need to tinker with the alphabet at all, at least not much. Especially not in ways which promote a single official pronunciation, and therefore exclude the wide diversity of ways the majority actually sound. View discussion
JenPaws LittleRichardjohn Have you ever tried to write a story in simple phonically-regular monosyllables. Yes there are lots but the stories are almost always nonsensical, repetitive and very boring!
Reply to reply if given time.
“Oh I do like to be beside the seaside.
Oh I do like to be beside the sea.
Oh I do like to stroll along the Prom-prom-prom
Where the brass-band plays:
Tiddlee-om-pom-pom….” etc etc.
In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism 3 Jul 2025 12:23
In response to deputywinner
Specify the parts of Marxist ideology which demand genocide.
Your millions of dead were the result largely of organised interference by outside powers to internal revolutions.
The anti-French Revolution of Imperial powers is the classic example. Spawning the Terror, Napoleon and a decade of war across Europe killing millions.
The Russian Civil War was equally nothing to do with Marx and everything to do with the ruthless but doomed hereditary empires clinging to life.
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In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
3 Jul 2025 12:16
In response to ID3777
Name 2 of these ‘Marxist’ regimes.
I’ve never heard of any, except maybe the Seychelles, which wouldn’t have lasted as long as it did had it controlled oil-tanker traffic in and out of Texas.
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In an age of failing economies and a populist backlash, I’ll tell you what we need – Marxism
3 Jul 2025 12:13
When Christ stood on the Mount of Olives and pronounced ‘Where your treasure is there will your heart be also’ he could hardly have known that 1830-odd years later a Christianised Jew would reinterpret his words for the industrial Money-lenders and military moguls of the day.
Laws, morality, conventions and bureaucracies are all merely the scaffolding of property values. It’s why bishops can bless battleships and Might is Always Right..
If only Marxists exploited the ideological convergence more.
It would also have been useful if Marx had known about the Greenhouse Effect. Marxists do now, which is another potentially irresistible and natural alliance in the making.
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Trump is angry with a world that won’t give him easy deals
25 Jun 2025 09:09
If he’s capable of learning anything, Trump will now know that his frenzy has, in Sun-speak:
BOMBED IRAN INTO THE NUCLEAR AGE’.
The last thing he should have wanted. But who knows with this psychopath – Mods please note, this is no longer ‘vulgar abuse’, let alone libel. It is the solemn testimony of qualified psychologists, including some friends and family. The patient needs physical restraint.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 13:32
In response to wyrcommunity
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time is still not a capital offence. As a ‘Jaywalking Law’ will make it, in practice. A licence to kill.
“Honest officer. He just broke clause 2 sec b of the Jaywalking Law.”
We are not quite America.
The absence of such a monstrosity is a reminder that pedestrians always have right of way, and that cyclists are not vehicles but merely pedestrians on wheels.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 13:23
in response to Fossilised
Your pedestrian-avoiding mechanism has had millions of years of R&D behind it. And the same amount of ruthless product-testing in the real world. And even now, it’s not perfect. Adrenalin always overcomes judgement.
Robo-cars are in their primeval infacy.
Their brains are a a bacterial stage of evolution.
I wouldn’t trust one to miss a bull’s arse with a shovel.
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The car made pedestrians second-class citizens. Don’t let driverless vehicles push us off the road altogether
12 Jun 2025 10:46
Wake me up when the automotive industry has finally harnessed ancient Radar technology to produce the Asimov. The car which which cannot kill people.
This has been possible and practicable for decades, and would have saved literally millions of lives. It has been used for decades to protect precious paintwork from parking scrapes.
So why not lives?
Or don’t they matter?
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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it’s time to rethink the hype
10 Jun 2025 11:50
We are about to blow all our Renewable Energy credit (and our future) on this magic madness which wiill only increase global inequality.
Another systemic waste-strategy on a par with the nuclear arms race, and designed to do the same thing. To divert resources from the needs of the people, keeping them in perpetual conflict with each other for survival..
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 12:41
In response to NotWithPastry
Who are this ‘new left’ you invent?
These are ordinary people protecting themselves from armed, masked mobs of thugs tearing families apart and destroying businesses.
They are also appalled at the prospect of their state being annexed by a fascist regime.
A fate being promised by der Weißes Haus which you either don’t trust or care about. Which is it?
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LittleRichardjohn
NotWithPastry
The ICE kidnap mobs are the ‘rioters’. They are the terrorists tearing families apart and closing businesses. Inciting political opposition to inhuman policies designed to create more conflict and the imposition of martial law. A police state by the Reichstag Effect.
This is not the same as Rodney King, the racist attack by an LAPD with deep ancestral roots in the deep south. This is the pretext for ultimately suspending the constitution. A Tump that can watch blatantly Nazi groups like The Base actively sabotaging Ukrainian infrastructure can do anything his crazed mind tells him to. Like telling his mob to hang his then Vice President.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 12:11
In response to TimHowell
Who elected him to create a police state?
And don’t play the raw prawn, only a raving psychopath would perform as he has throughout his sad excuse for a life.
The fact is he was only elected by industrial peddling of an enormous attack on the nature of truth itself. By the contradiction in terms called ‘capitalist democracy’ which encourages the sale of power to the highest bidder.
No British politician has ever been able to commit such an atrocity and get away with it. Parliamentary democracies do not have ‘Presidents’ who can delude themselves they are God. As even Chirchill and Thatcher discovered.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:54
The political pivot of this issue is the reaction of the immigrants who voted for Trump.
If they realise their mistake he is in trouble. If they follow him like sheep, conflict within communities could become toxic.
When Trump has annexed California by military force, they might come to their senses.
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:48
In response to NotWithPastry
He is blatantly not
“taking steps to preserve the peace along with people’s lives and property is not wrong per se.”
He is deliberately inciting mass violence.
Soon someone will get killed, in the resulting chaos, he wil unleash his Jan 6 lynch-mob brigade to ‘spontaneously’ retaliate, and he will have his pretext to declare martial law and suspend the constitution, citing Lincoln (!)
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We are witnessing the first stages of a Trump police state
9 Jun 2025 11:34
1. Armed, masked kidnap-squads and National Guard sent to terrorise communities.
2. ‘Someone ‘accidentally’ gets killed.
3. Bereaved community retaliates by targeting ICE agencies and property.
4. Maga lynch-mobs attack immigrant communities en-masse.
5. Trump declares martial law.
6. R.I.P U.S.A.
The Reichstag Effect.
California secedes, taking its Silicon Valley arsenal and Washington state with it.
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Tory proposal to leave ECHR would put peace in Northern Ireland at risk, Labour suggests – as it happened
6 Jun 2025 12:30
Fantasy politics, unless Badenough is ready to throw the Good Friday Agreement on her bonfire of the Humanities, along with the Scottish and Welsh devolution agreements. Not to mention enabling a list of humanitarian obscenities worthy of Putin’s Neo-bolshevism.
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
That’s the noise of Tesla shares and sales crashing. Along with his brain.
Spoilt Brat doesn’t get NASA as a toy and has a paddy. ‘KILL THE BILL’
June 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Doublethink of the Day.
‘Tesla lobbied UK to strengthen rules on carbon emissions from cars and lorries
Pushed for British government to introduce rules for HGVs, as it readies Semi truck’
June 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Show me the evidence for your sick DENIALISM. Your revenge agony has damaged your brain. Just as the genocide you are inflicting on Gaza is ensuring another bloodbath.
You must hate Jews very much to wish more death on them.
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You don’t know what ‘communication’ means. Your cult has replaced it with Doublethink and indoctrination. Maga is not a plan, it is psychopathic revenge against Humanity. The howl of toxic consumerism on its deathbed. Depending on ever-higher doses of Carbon to kill the pain. And everything else.
June 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset
4 Jun 2025 14:52
Language is on its deathbed.
The universal abuse of ‘radical’ for fanatic is possibly the most glaring example of the triumph of Newspeak.
A word with an intrinsically, essentially rational meaning. To literally address the root cause of an issue or proposition. A very useful word indeed, especially in a hysterical era like this.
But instead of using it for its purpose, to enable clarity of thought and actions, the media mangle it to fit every myth-worshipping fanatic, murderer and psychotic rampaging the planet, making it practically useless in rational political discourse. And without the word, where is the action? Or even the thought..
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Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
We fit cars with radar to protect their precious paintwork, but won’t use the same technology to save lives. The Asimov car, incapable of injuring people, was possible decades ago. But we treasure speed and power more than life.
“Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”
Spot the quote,
May 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
They were the Farage Hate-Week.
And must never be mentioned without the Wonderful Wednesday which ended them.
When 1000s organised anti-fascist action comparable with Cable Street and RAR.
May 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Because to admit that they are sick implies an environmental cause.
And there is only one environment, Toxic Consumerism, and we are too addicted to it to face its reality.
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
You mean like the aeroplane before the Wright Brothers.
‘If God had meant us to drive cars he would have given us wheels.’
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
Zionism is just fascism in a yarmulke, as Einstein predicted.
Like all nationalisms, it is a genocidal lie based on a genocidal origin myth.
Absolute rule ‘From The River to the Sea.’
Israel never learns from history, whether from the suppression of the Bar-Kokhbar revolt or the excuse for Krystallnacht.
May 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Little Richardjohn
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
The Carbonist manifesto prohibits sustainability because its political power depends on manipulated shortages of fossil-fuel energy.
It cannot bottle the wind or sunshine, so it must criminalise and deter their use for the common good.
May 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Interviewer: Hadrian, (‘God rot your bones’). How’s the Bar-Kokhba revolt 135A.D. going?
Hadrian: We’ve bottled them up on Betar,
Interviewer: So if it’s not siege, what is it?
Hadrian: Genocide. We are defending Rome.
Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform will continue to prosper
8 May 2025 12:24
In response to guardianistaleeds
Redneck Britain has always existed. Johnny Speight was both a satirist and a prophet.
As recently as the 2010s I was sitting at a cosy tea with aged relatives, and had to listen in silence to the most disgusting racism by assorted cuddly grans and grandads who fought to defeat fascism. And some citing conversations with a prominent local baptist minister whose lesson was “Enoch was right. Send them all back.”.
In some, this racism almost amounted to a form of ‘Chromo-phobia’, an irrational fear of darkness, as induced in Apartheid kindergarden.
This may be a condition induced by a Depression-Era fear of dirt. We live in hope.
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Class still matters in politics – and until living standards improve, Reform will continue to prosper
8 May 2025 12:11
Class is the only thing that really matters.
If all the energy wasted in the last 30 years on futile self-indulgent, middle-class, pseudo-intellectual, divisive ‘Identity Politics’ had been invested in raising consciousness of the Class Identity we all share, so-called ‘Populism’ would be inconceivable.
People would be far too aware of who their real enemies are.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The list of Flump’s untreated mental diseases is professionally documented by colleagues and family. And the effects are now no longer news or opinion, but pure counting. Add the increasing senility and I give him 9 months before they drag him away.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
I’m not pretending to be a head of state. He is.
Trump is a psychopathic megalomaniac who despises law-abiding citizens as SUCKERS, and all Human institutions as barriers to his global sabotage – including all laws, the U.N. & science. To defend him is to also deny reality.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A lot of people are obviously as sick in the head as he is. Hardly surprising since everyone swims in the same sewer with the disease-rats. Consumerism kills. And when it kills itself, as it obviously is doing, the advance knowledge drives everyone even crazier.
Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong
23 Apr 2025 10:52
In response to wiseowler
The problem is that the collective Humanism you propose is the enemy of blind Profit and Power which lives by perpetual war – a creed so corrupted and crazed by its global supremacy that it is unable to act in its own survival.
How do you overcome a monstrous creed like that?
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Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants
22 Apr 2025 15:29
The greatest pestilence infesting social housing stock is penetration by cowboy landlords sucking as much profit out of their sublets as possible.
The use of cowboy contractors, or none at all, for plumbing and other essential repairs is routine.
And seemingly powerless local authorities are ultimately landed with the cost of the repeated floods, fly-tippimg, removal of structural walls and other vandalism of property owned by the taxpayer.
Abolish the Right To Buy’ now. It’s been done, and the sky never fell in. If it has to exist – strict apartheid and no subsidies of Leaseholders. No mixed developments, they are merely an anti-social hostage to the future.
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With ‘AI slop’ distorting our reality, the world is sleepwalking into disaster
21 Apr 2025 14:45
‘Sleepwalking’ at a suicidally high Carbon cost.
Or maybe that’s the point, as usual.
To hijack any technological advance to enslave Humanity rather than free it.
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rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
It’s ‘about’ destroying thought. About making coherent calculations from observable data impossible, since all conclusions must conform to ever-shifting party orthodoxy. So any research may lead to dangerous (‘woke) conclusions. Ban the word ‘climate’ and you throttle all climate science.
April 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
How long do you think the United Nations can survive the global bonfire of the humanities aka MAGA? The League of Nations did not survive the last fascist pandemic.
April 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
How long does he give the U.N.? I can’t see it surviving a 2nd MAGA term in office. The bonfire of the humanities won’t stop at libraries and charities. All unifying institutions are the enemy of fascism, and must be eradicated.
April 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
e) The preservation of the species. The planet is burning and every human testicle is infested with micro-plastics. Both potentially fatal to the Human Race, both furiously ignored by the Trumpists. academic.oup.com/toxsci/artic…
Microplastic presence in dog and human testis and its potential association with sperm count and weights of testis and epididymis
Abstract. The ubiquitous existence of microplastics and nanoplastics raises concerns about their potential impact on the human reproductive system. Limitedacademic.oup.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:53 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
But it can’t be interpreted rationally through an irrational use of language. Like the widespread use by apparently intelligent people of ‘radical’ for its opposite, ‘fanatic’. A
ny schoolboy knowledge of Latin exposes this folly
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
rob kenyon
@littlerichardjohn.bsky.social
‘By definition, ‘radical’ politics literally tackle the ‘root’ cause of problems. This is the essence of the word, in spite of attempts to conflate ‘radical’ with ‘terrorist’, as in the use of ‘radicalisation’ to refer to those in fact ‘fanaticised’ by real traumas.’ biginabox.com/2024/01/28/g…
April 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
One stock seems truly doomed this week: if you hold any Kemi Badenoch, accept my condolences
11 Apr 2025 15:17
Don’t expect any shame from Badenough. You underestimate the powers of doublethink.
See Farage today decrying the Truss budget he originally praised to the skies.
The mental gymnastics of a Spider Monkey on speed.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Every word he wrote was a warning against Trump, who, like Hitler “specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘Science’... a nightmare world in which the Leader..controls the past.” Just like now. http://orwell.ru/library/essays/Spanish_War/english/esw_1…
Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:39
Trump’s 1st Five Year Plan will work exactly the same as Stalin’s.
It will destroy worker’s rights, increase inflation, reduce living standards, and cause disease and starvation among ‘Loser’ states.
It will impose feudal loyalty on the workforce, glorifying those who enrich their employers most. Expect a version of Stakhanovism to emerge to reward the ‘Hero-Workers’.
Plus awards for the most fertile mother.
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Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:31
One explanation is that Trump is a dedicated, fundamentalist Trotskyite, determined to destroy the global money-system.
Then see what emerges from the ruins.
Fiendish clever those Trots.
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Here’s one key thing you should know about Trump’s shock to the world economy: it could work
7 Apr 2025 17:26
In response to DunNechtain
it’s pathological.
Against the tide of craven silence, Joe Walsh (Republican ex-Congressman) has just called a spade a spade.
“We have a Madman in the White Housee.”
Time the doctors did their job. Trump’s mental state would justify a mutiny on the Isle of Wight ferry .View discussion
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
And then the rich go shopping, buying bankrupt companies for cookies. The result, mega-monopolisation as predicted by Marx and forbidden by Adam Smith.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The weak must go to the wall. It’s Nature. God’s Will. If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face, forever. Or at least until the Day of Judgement, when the ancient prophesies will be fulfilled..
Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both
4 Apr 2025 16:10
In response to Deckard85
The so called ‘American Dream’ is perfectly embodied in its bankruptcy laws.
If you go broke, cross the county line and find a new batch of suckers to fleece.
It’s called ‘re-inventing yourself’ and is almost obligatory.
It also accounts for the vast Psychiatric and Divorce industries.
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Are Trump’s tariffs for real or an AI hallucination? I’m afraid the answer is both
4 Apr 2025 16:05
Why am I getting flashbacks of Prohibition-Era America?
Which also imposed ideological trade restrictions and fostered organised crime – but nothing on this scale.
Or the Corn Laws, which caused Higher Costs of Living, lower disposable Income, Social Unrest and famine.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You’re certainly addicted to the Art of the Pogrom. Acquired behaviour, presumably. The Abused becoming Abuser. The dictator beaten as a child by a brutal Father.
‘Those to whom evil is done do evil in return’..
Trump and Musk have ushered in the era of cataclysm capitalism. But I have a plan to counter it
2 Apr 2025 15:38
The inevitable consequence of Trump’s catastrophe politics will be environmental catastrophe, and the end of civilisation.
Start there, and work backwards to the point of first resistance.
Victory for the Carbonist Axis of Trump, Putin, Mohdi and the rest means death for the planet.
How much more motivation does anyone need?
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As Trump rewrites even America’s history, institutions have two choices – submit or find ways to resist
31 Mar 2025 17:31
Millenial paranoias throughout history have always fanned Bonfires of the Humanities and nihilistic mass-movements dedicated to eradicating civilisation in preparation for the Last Judgement.
Trumpism is the latest incarnation of this psychosis, only this time not one founded on superstition but science. The only anti-dote to science is Magic Thinking. Deny the problem exists and it will go away. The essence of fascist populism.
And if woke-o-phobia demands the end of science and causes mass-extinction, so what?
‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’
As Orwell also wrote:
‘Nazi theory indeed specifically denies that such a thing as ‘the truth’ exists. There is, for instance, no such thing as ‘Science’. There is only ‘German Science’, ‘Jewish Science’, etc. The implied objective of this line of thought is a nightmare world in which the Leader, or some ruling clique, controls not only the future but the past. If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ — well, it never happened.’
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NOW will the media call a psychopath a psychopath, and admit that only a psychopathic society could spawn a creature like this? (Or Trump.) Or would that be to touch a huge nerve?
Rob Kenyon
@biginabox
Too busy destroying the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress. Then send the United Nations the way of the League of Nations. Purge all vestiges of the C20th contract.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
So adolescent. All wind and pipecleaners. A generation that thinks democracy is a TV which renovates your house when you change the channel. A supermarket where ‘The Customer is Always Right.’
‘The lights must never go out. The music must always play.’
Eh Michael?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The economy doesn’t run on conscience. Until you grasp that fact you will always be disappointed and disillusioned and easy pickings for fascist groomers like Farage.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Pete Hegseth TEAM UPDATE: TIME NOW (1144et): Weather is FAVORABLE.
Just CONFIRMED w/ CENTCOM we are a GO for mission launch. 1215et: F-18s LAUNCH (1st strike package) 1345: “Trigger Based” F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location…
SHOULD BE ON TIME – also Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s) 1410: More F-18s LAUNCH 2nd strike package 1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP pending earlier “Trigger Based” targets) 1536: F-18 2nd Strike – also 1st sea-based Tomahawks launched
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Grow up. The reason children aren’t allowed to vote is because they would expect a new government to wave a magic wand and make it all better. The real world never works like that.
In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 18:09
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Try re-reading what you respond to.
Who claimed any ‘media support’ for anything except dictatorship?
The media which has kept the rural vote in shackles.
Your strategy of total submission has certainly never threatened any tyrants.
Refusing to do their bidding has. It is what they fear most.
‘During the first secession in 494 BC, plebeians walked off the job to protest a law that would increase their debt. The strike resulted in a repeal of that law, as well as a government representative position for plebeians. ‘
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 16:15
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Erdogan has rural support. ensured by monolithic media control.
When the TV screens are blank, the indoctrinated will have no leaders.
The only sure way to topple dictators is to strangle the state machine they rely on by refusing to operate it.
The existence of the Trumpist obscenity proves that the mere activism of ’60s America delivered only superficial and grudging progress.
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 14:33
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
How would Erdogan’s army force people back to their factories and offices?
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 14:32
In response to AUserByAnyOtherName
Who would do that?
The only people who matter. Anyone in Turkey opposed to dictatorial autocratic rule.
The General Strike is a well-understood weapon of the people.
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In Turkey, we are showing the world how to challenge a callous, authoritarian leader
26 Mar 2025 12:41
Erdogan does not fear street protest of any scale.
His worst nightmare is a comprehensive package of internal sanctions which would cripple the Turkish economy and state machine.
Namely, massive organised withdrawal of labour. The under-used siege-tactics of the masses.
Workers cannot be forced to work by teargas and baton-rounds.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
If they’re ‘nothing’, let’s see them.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Saving civilisation usually requires some sacrifices. Especially when the sacrifices are of useless JUNK which are the main threat to civilisation in the first place. Whatever happened to the ‘Blitz Spirit’?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Why? To show they CAN. That reality is merely what they say it is, at any time.
Which means they can impoverish and abuse Americans while claiming to enrich and nurture them.
Many chemical toxins have the same euphoric effect.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
You don’t have to define what the words you use mean?
Definitive proof that your brain is dead. The ‘news’ is that the Psychopaths are determined to destroy civilisation. Sick degenerate gangsters abused by brutal fathers and now taking their revenge on Humanity. Including you.
Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again
18 Mar 2025 15:43
In response to hammersmithtownie
‘To do what?‘
For starters, to ditch the obsolete planet-killing economic dogma which created Trump in the first place. Before it kills us all.
Every other milennarian trauma in history was mere superstition.
This one has the backing of undeniable simple arithmetic. The psychological aftershock of that realisation is the politics of denial. The politics of the nursery.
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Donald Trump: the president making anywhere but America great again
18 Mar 2025 15:34
“Lonny, selling a used political dogma is very much like sexually assaulting a beautiful woman… “
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Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?
16 Mar 2025 19:45
In response to speckledhen
A new era of genuine Austerity for all, in the finest British tradition.
If consumption levels had stabilised at early ’60s levels, it’s hardly likely the world would now be facing catastrophe.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Grow up. He’s a Minister, not a Matron. And like all ministers, relies on his team.
Since you’re the expert, if the number of diagnoses IS accurate, why is this EPIDEMIC happening and how do you recommend ending it?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
What do you blame for this relentless increase in mental illness? Which predates Covid by years. Streeting’s mistake is not in his psychiatry but in his lack of applied Sociology. It’s a truism that a sick society creates sick people. So what would make society healthier?
Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you?
16 Mar 2025 14:53
I’ve always had a plan for this.
Live within the minimum as defined by the benefits system.
Which just so happens to be sustainable for the planet.
If everyone was on the dole, there would be no environmental crisis caused by toxic levels of over-consumption.
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It is mission critical that Labour repairs the contract between citizen and state
16 Mar 2025 11:59
Before the ‘contract’ can be ‘restored’ it has to be rewritten.
The clause which allows power to be sold to the highest bidder must be removed.
It totally undermines any pretence to democracy.
The contract needs a Sanity Clause.
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Keir Starmer is having his chainsaw moment – but all he will slash is democracy
14 Mar 2025 11:29
What is anti-democratic about abolishing NHS England? A Quango created by tories to protect unenthusiastic tory ministers.
Putting ministers back in the firing line is surely a democratic act. No?
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 14:00
In response to tazi
You soon realise the JUNK we’re wasting our precious currency on.
None of it worth a single tear, and most of it clinically toxic.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:57
In response to FirmbutFair
You don’t get it.
He wants to hurt his electorate.
Firstly to create another scapegoat for his arsenal, but also to demonstrate his power to hurt.
A terrified people is a compliant people.
That truth didn’t die with the Stasi or Spanish Inquisition.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:53
In response to ArthurOPodd
Sadism is at the core of all reactionary politics.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:50
In response to Shanika
Cart before Horse.
It’s the consequence of capitalism on its deathbed. Having reached the stage where its environmental price had to be paid, and its inherent contradictions hit the buffers.
Nothing that wasn’t predicted over a century ago, and in scientific detail since the 1970’s.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:46
In response to dr8765
The logic is to scramble the brains of the workforce with so much contradiction and absurdity so that they stop asking damn fool questions and do what their owners tell them.
‘Keep your nose clean, your mouth shut, and you won’t get hurt.’
Terrorism is another word for it.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:43
In response to KingHomer1965
Careful now..
Guardmins don’t lie the use of psychiatric terms. Even if it’s a case of Rem acu tetigisti.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:38
In response to Andyouwillknowme
‘2+2=5’
The political E=MC2, and yet to be bettered as a formula for the doublethink nightmare we are seeing with our own eyes.
But for how long? Already, millions of Americans are blinded to the horror they are being subjected to. What makes us so immune from the pandemic?
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:33
In response to jp1203
For the squillionth time:
So called ‘Capitalist Democracy’ is a contradiction in terms.
How can a system where Power is a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder be called ‘democratic’ in any shape or form?
In America, the decay has reached the stage where a vote is of as much use as a medieval Indulgence.
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It’s ‘Maganomics’: Trump’s brash economic strategy is likely to end in crash or crisis
12 Mar 2025 13:28
‘It’s certainly difficult to attribute Trump’s policies to the intellectual influence of any one strand in economic thinking.‘
Trump is better understood as the latest in a long line of Revolutionary Millenarianists and Mystical Anarchists. As catalogued in Norman Cohn’s invaluable ‘The Pursuit of the Millenium’
The failure of previous projects was made inevitable by their supernatural foundations.
Trumpist eschatology is forced to be founded on the scientific reality of impending global catastrophe. And so Science must be discredited – except to make money and build bigger bombs.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Another 180-degree Doublethink back-flip. Trump’s massive stroke another day nearer. No normal brain can take this much punishment. And this is not a normal brain.
Vance’s immigrant-wife should be measuring curtains.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Psychopath is the word everyone is afraid to use. Trump is merely the tip of the toxic Consumerist Iceberg. Il Psycho di tutti Psycho. Nutter of all the nutters.
20% of all CEOs qualify as Psychopathic. (Search & See.)
Canadians believe that Mark Carney is the man to stand up to Donald Trump
10 Mar 2025 15:31
Carney to shut off electricity to the U.S if Trumptrum refuses to behave. Fighting talk and a lead to the real ‘free world’. A lesson in parenting.
Can pampered U.S. consumers take it as well as dish it out?
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
H2N1 Flu virus now rife in US dairy herds, and favourite to jump species barrier this year. Nutter Kennedy to “give infectious diseases a break for 8 years.” No defences. No vaccines. No research, because the banned word CLIMATE would appear.
https://cepi.net/richard-hatchett-reflects-banner-year-viruses-and-looks-ahead-2025…
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Richard Hatchett reflects on a “banner year for viruses” and looks ahead to 2025 | CEPI
The founding fathers baked reason, truth and free speech into the US. That’s all gone now
9 Mar 2025 11:43
In response to nonanon1
How ‘astonishing’ is it that the land of the Jim-Crow Silent Majority was cleansed of its culture of lynch-mob dog-eat-dog triumphalism by 100 years of competitive consumerism and perpetual wars?
The legal advances of the 60’s and later ‘Identity Politics’ activism were always a facade of civilisation. The real, fanatically regressive face of the USA was always there under the collogen and store-bought hair. View discussion
LittleRichardjohn
KateKingWarwickshire
Glad you got away with ‘bonkers’. The Guardian is afraid of allowing anything more clinically accurate to describe the Trusk’n’Mump act. There seems to be a worldwide media ban on the elephant in the room term : ‘psyc***ath’. That means we have already lost the information war.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He’s a Psychopath who cannot enjoy the pleasures of Humanity, and so has to destroy it. The Bonfire of the Humanities. With all Gravy Trains running to Trump and pals.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He despises democracy. The new Pathocracy is merely Orwell’s 1984 come true.
Orwell got it right. Fukiyama got it horribly wrong.
Now is the ‘end of history’. Now that Mump & Trusk control it. https://heraldscotland.com/business_hq/23871185.power-pathocracy-politics-attracts-dangerous-people/…
The power of ‘pathocracy’: How politics attracts dangerous and disturbed people From heraldscotland.com
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
BadEnoch’s entire rant today should have been directed at every tory regime of the last 15 years. Her loony NatC agenda for the world invites China to invade Taiwan.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Trump caused the chaos which left US hardware in Taliban hands. Excluding the legitimate government from talks delivered the country to the Taliban on a plate. The US taxpayer should send him the bill.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The war of the Taliban Vs the Women and Children of Afghanistan never stopped, and was given the green light by Trump, who hates women.
By excluding the Afghan government from talks he ensured chaos. Like Nixon in Vietnam.
UK defence spending to rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 with aid budget slashed to help fund move – UK politics live
25 Feb 2025 13:39
Bad Enoch exploiting the suffering of the Ukrainian people to score bonkers political points and promote her toxic dogma of the Dog-eat-dog world of perpetual war. An explicit, shameless reversion to the realpolitik of C19th Imperialism.
The quote: “NatC” death-cult she admitted to and wishes to infest the world with is a gift to Putin, and to every superpower intent on annexing Taiwan.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
A WORLD problem, which the US is a part of. You cannot escape. Justice is not a commodity but essential for life. Your gangster regime will eat itself as its insane contradictions unfold.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The U.S.S.R. was never a union of soviets and never socialist.
It was Bolshevism, the bastard offspring of Half-read Marxism and Electrified Czarist Feudalism driven partly by personal vendettas. What we have now is the Neo-Bolshevism predicted by Orwell, only fuelled by mega-cyber-power.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Because he is eating the carpet. Because his world exists only in what is left of his brain.
A total breakdown is imminent. His minders should keep him well away from red buttons.
He is King of the 1 in 5:
https://forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/…
The Psychopathic CEO
From forbes.com
We are on the road for democracy and justice
19 Feb 2025 16:28
In response to WilcoxySteve
‘This article details correctly how the American people can defeat Trumpism…’
Sorry.
It just doesn’t do that.
Lots of C20th era oratory and Humanist demands, but no Rat-trap blueprint. And no real sense that Bernie understands the scale of the vast arsenal facing any dissenting voices to the Cyber-fascist oligarchy. Every A.I. valve will be burning red to prevent any sliver of truth from polluting the media-sphere.
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We are on the road for democracy and justice
19 Feb 2025 16:16
Unless the Democrats, the US working class movement, plus the intelligentsia realise with a bump that the ‘American Dream’ is a lie, the Cyber-fascist oligarchy will have no worries.
For as long as well-meaning liberals like Sntr Saunders try to square the circle of capitalist-democracy, which sells political power to the highest bidder, genuine progress will be impossible. The medicine has made us sick. The treatment is not more of the same.
What Mump does fear is genuinely universal class-consciousness. The realisation that the Human Race has more in common than divides it, and that in an age of hyper-productive industrial capacity, poverty and suffering should be a thing of the past. Class identity is the only ‘identity’ that can create truly radical policies, which stay away from dubious dead-end causes.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The lie of the ‘American Dream’ has been exposed. So called ‘Capitalist democracy’ is a contradiction in terms because it sells power and information to the richest (and therefore the most ruthless) individuals, who then monopolise & control them. More feudal then ‘democratic’.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
#Orwell‘s 1984 anti-Truth world has been achieved. Putin’s Neo-Bolshevism, Trump’s Cyber-fascism, and Xi’s Neo-Confucianism united in a vast apocalyptic Bonfire of the Humanities. That is the enemy the remains of Civilisation faces. Only Human class-consciousness might save us.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
#Orwell‘s 1984 anti-Truth world has been achieved. Putin’s Neo-Bolshevism, Trump’s Cyber-fascism, and Xi’s Neo-Confucianism united in a vast apocalyptic Bonfire of the Humanities. That is the enemy the remains of Civilisation faces. Only Human class-consciousness might save us.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
NOW will the BBC finally admit that Trump is clinically insane?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Or. How to Destroy the Atmosphere Forever. The Hyper-Data wars demand vast amounts of energy. And all merely to sustain a toxic, indefensible Consumerist Death-Cult dedicated to total barbarism.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Remember Afghanistan.. Which Trump sold down the river in exactly the same way he is about to sell Ukraine. By excluding the Afghan government from the talks he sowed the chaos which Biden was blamed for. Delivering millions into barbarism. He doesn’t care. Psychopaths never do.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Show, don’t tell. Or stop lying. “More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a single year – Oxfam” Published: 30th September 2024. (More to come) https://oxfam.org/en/press-releases/more-women-and-children-killed-gaza-israeli-military-any-other-recent-conflict…
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More women and children killed in Gaza by Israeli military than any other recent conflict in a…
In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:32
In response to MissMoneypenny99
It’s ‘what happens’ when the contradiction in terms called ‘capitalist democracy’ reaches its inevitable conclusion in war, dictatorship and genocide. In our case universal suicide.
It’s not as if the average politics student in the 70’s wasn’t informed of this buckle in the capitalist bike-wheel, meaning a total breakdown sooner or later.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:27
In response to yvesferrer
The Bonfire of the Humanities.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 11:25
The problem with history is the fact it is breeding exponentially, making it ever more impossible to process. At this rate we are reaching a state of information overload, both practically and psychologically. Many crackpot conspiracy theories can be explained by this ever-growing maze of data. (Mazes are scary, they have monsters in them..)
Every second spawns new events and discoveries to be documented, analysed and interpreted, and new interpretations to be fought over for generations.
The sheer bulk is now taxing the powers of modern cyber-space and of our feeble brains, How can so many versions of the past be true? Better to invent it, like a lonely child and its imaginary friend.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 10:50
In response to jimboy63
Then YOU are ‘bunk’ since you are the direct product of your history.
Despise it, despise yourself.
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In the Musk revolution, lessons from the 20th century will be deleted
12 Feb 2025 10:48
Is there anything Orwell got wrong about now?
The Double-think, the Thought-crime, the Newspeak, the vast oligarchical Power Blocs, The destruction of Truth, the Perpetual War? The Mechanised Prolefeed, The Daily Hate, 2+2=5, war is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery.
All boxes ticked within the last 10 years.
If Orwell had known about The Greenhouse Effect, 1984 would have been even more prophetic. And even without knowing, he still sensed the horror of unfettered industrial capitalism, as his Green essays demonstrate..
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Unless there is total Arab solidarity, Trump will sanction his way to Gazan genocide. The Arab OPEC cartel still has it in its power to repeat the Oil Shock of 1973/74. And many would say that Trump’s insanity has given them even more reason than they had then.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Science only fuels denial and hate in those totally invested in the Carbonist Identity. As everyone can now see. 2+2=5.
The Pathocracy is Fundamentally Misanthropist, and bent on a Bonfire of the Humanities. The only solution would be a miracle achievement of Class-Consciousness.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
With psychos like you wandering the streets, who needs Trump to kill you all? In ten years you’ll be waging tribal wars to the death. with Trump cackling at you from his tower.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk by name musk by nature. Rampaging through civilisation like a bull-elephant on heat. Let the book-burning commence, and no mercy until the United Nations building is another Saddam-style palace.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
More fundamentally, the politics of hate are easy to promote because they exploit fast-release Fear-enzymes like Adrenalin and Testosterone. The politics of Hope require a prolonged period of cooperation and trust to generate its feel-good hormones. Hate is easier than Trust.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They’re ALL Nazis. The latest and most diseased incarnation of the cancer. This time more ’empowered by the lights of perverted science’ than ever. All kissing the arse of the latest psychopathic Fuhrer.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let the book-burning commence! ‘Woke’ science ends now. Goodbye Darwin, Hello Exxon.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Let’s re-examine. Trump giving a green light to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is funny how?
Like stage tragedy, black humour may have outlived its time.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk hates free speech and thought. They deliver too many inconvenient truths for his Psychopathic mind to process. So Science must be outlawed, and the idea of evidence abolished. He perverted the Twitter algorhythms to reward blind Hate and to drag us back to the stone age.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Musk is fulfilling the prophesies of both Orwell and Marx.
In a nutshell: ‘Monopoly = Death.”
Adam Smith would agree.
To see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
7 Jan 2025 14:52
In response to pipini
‘Capitalist democracy’ will always be a contradiction in terms while Power can be bought by the highest bidder. Most people realise this fraud, but refuse to acknowledge it. To accept that the entire basis of their self-image was based on a lie is too much. So the only solution to hand is Denialism, and increasing anger at every item of unwelcome evidence delivered.
In a digital world, Truth is now the same kind of consumer commodity.
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Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
They are employing Psychopaths devoid of Human Empathy who can damage lives without remorse. This kind of animal thrives in and is nurtured by our sick culture.
A viscous circle which is just ONE cause of child abuse. Not that causes concern you. https://forbes.com/sites/jackmccullough/2019/12/09/the-psychopathic-ceo/…forbes.com
The Psychopathic CEO
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The investigations are concluded. The scandal is their non-implementation by a regime dependent on Musk’s hate-rewarding algorhythms. Everyone knows who did that. They were in power for 14 years.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
There’s only 1 side who could have delayed implementation of the Jay recommendations. And only 1 with the motive to do so.
Jay’s demands for Social media regulation would cripple the tories and Musk. Which is why they both need to block action to prevent child abuse. Whatever the human cost.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Only trouble, Starmer did no such thing.
Next Strawman?
The ‘public’ deserve to know the CAUSE of child abuse. Why the reluctance to ask ‘Why?’
Because the answer is too uncomfortable.
We live in a Sick society which makes people sick.
And we won’t change it whatever the cost.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
‘Mania’ is the apt term for Musk’s brand of infantile megalomania. He merely wants to stymie implementation of the Jay report indefinitely, because it recommended tough action against SM shit-pits like his.
Why can’t he be indicted for inciting a coup, and arrested next visit?
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
The rape gangs 14 years of Tory gangsterism did nothing about? In spite of repeated demands in the final report and by every lawyer involved, including Starmer..
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
He now owns and controls most of the world’s information, so everything is his ‘business’.
The right sort of information (hate) makes him richer.
The wrong sort (cooperation) makes him poorer.
He designed the Twatter algorhythms to make money from hate.
Rob Kenyon
@Biginabox
Who said he’s ‘stupid’? Like 20% of CEOs, @elonmusk is a PSYCHOPATH.
A very different kind of ‘stupid’. But a quality essential for success in a PSYCHOPATHIC, anti-reality world.
January 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
3 Jan 2025 14:51
In response to Deckard85
You forget Doublethink.
When Mump owns and controls all information, the past will be just another commodity, to be rebranded and updated in order to ensure the permanence of the digital Oligarchy.
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Ex-Tory Brexit minister Lord Frost rejects party’s claims over Europe-wide customs scheme – as it happened
28 Jan 2025 13:29
What’s the problem?
All Misogynists and the rest of the hate-driven Trump-worshipping clan are psychopaths and therefore potential terrorists.
Until we realise that all terrorists and murderers are that way because of the psychopathic culture they are raised by, we will never understand crime, and society will continue on its spiral into chaos.
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Beware, Trump: the American spirit is indefatigable
21 Jan 2025 11:04
In response to DeeterThomsk
The US Democrats are now merely chronic apologists for the failed economic system which created Trumpist fascism in the first place. Like the rest of the global ‘liberal’ consensus.
Until Trump’s opponents abandon so-called ‘Identity Politics’, and focus on the only Identity that matters – Class identity – Trump and his fellow Pathocrats will always steal the audience and buy the Power.
Britain should know. Johnson & Co did their best to destroy Britain. Trump is determined to finish the job.
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Major banks are abandoning their climate alliance en masse. So much for ‘woke capital’
15 Jan 2025 14:00
Corporate Global tyranny was best explained by Orwell (who else?)
‘Why does the lust for naked power become a major human motive exactly now, when the dominion of man over man is ceasing to be necessary?
As for the claim that ‘human nature’, or ‘inexorable laws’ of this and that, make Socialism impossible, it is simply a projection of the past into the future. In effect, Burnham argues that because a society of free and equal human beings has never existed, it never can exist.
By the same argument one could have demonstrated the impossibility of aeroplanes in 1900, or of motor cars in 1850.
The notion that the machine has altered human relationships, and that in consequence Machiavelli is out of date, is a very obvious one.‘
2nd Thoughts on James Burnham. 1946
Just substitute your favourite Cyber-Baron for ‘Burnham.’
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Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms
14 Jan 2025 15:42
‘This is a crisis. Liberal democracy will be picked apart unless..‘
.. some magical wizard can square the circle of capitalist ‘democracy’, where power is for sale to the highest bidder. And where the promotion of Hate is monetised, and is a commodity which is much easier to market than the values we need most, like cooperation and empathy..
View discussionTo see how Trump will control the US media, look at Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
7 Jan 2025 14:52
In response to pipini
‘Capitalist democracy’ will always be a contradiction in terms while Power can be bought by the highest bidder. Most people realise this fraud, but refuse to acknowledge it. To accept that the entire basis of their self-image was based on a lie is too much. So the only solution to hand is Denialism, and increasing anger at every item of unwelcome evidence delivered.
In a digital world, Truth is now the same kind of consumer commodity.
View discussionJanuary 6 was part of an attempted coup d’etat in America. Don’t let Trump and his allies tell you otherwise
3 Jan 2025 14:51
In response to Deckard85
You forget Doublethink.
When Mump owns and controls all information, the past will be just another commodity, to be rebranded and updated in order to ensure the permanence of the digital Oligarchy.
View discussionGluttony, lust and the other ‘deadly sins’ are seen as immoral, but are we hardwired to commit them?
2 Dec 2024 16:38
We are ‘hard-wired’ with appropriate chemical ‘rewards’ which prompt different responses according to their chemical nature. All caused by environmental hurdles placed in our evolutionary path..
Andrenalin and Testosterone are stimulated by perceived threats. The politicians of Hate are able to exploit this instinct to great effect.
Endorphins and Dopamine are sparked by Human cooperation and general security.
The politicians of cooperation have much harder time because communities are far harder to create and maintain than to destroy.
That is the dilemma we face at a time when we need cooperation more than ever. The politicians of Hate are addicted to their enzyme-fix, and are willing to destroy the ecosystem to stay high.
View discussionBrexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU
29 Nov 2024 17:28
In response to NeitherYankNorBrit
Some hope.
Putin is installing Neo-Bolshevism permanently.
Again Orwell’s satire becomes reality. A dire warning used as a manual.
Sometimes I wish he’s never written the damn book.
View discussionTrump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 14:50
In response to WallyGnat
It’s increasingly likely that the global cooperation needed will be the child of emergency.
At some point the penny will drop.
But probably too late to make enough difference.
The question is what will this near-death experience teach humanity?
Or rather RE_TEACH.
View discussionTrump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion
21 Nov 2024 11:46
Science can never feed the endless maw of consumerism.
Its own Law of Thermodynamics prevents that. The King of all Natural Laws:
‘You can’t get a quart out of a pint pot.’
Only a Humanist reduction of consumption on a radical scale can reduce emissions and make renewable energy systems achievable.
As we are always told when we want to save a local library:
‘We Must Learn To Live Within Our Means.’ We must ‘know our place’ in the ecosystem.
Technology is increasingly merely a means of profiting from making itself obsolete. Especially the latest CO2-spewing fad, A so-called I.
View discussionBehind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:49
In response to briski71
Start, as with all crises, by exterminating waste and over-consumption of materials and energy.
Much of the environmental damage we cause is the result of useless junk we are addicted to. Eliminate it at the cost of a cleaner world and a happier healthier society. One more capable of making astute political decisions.
View discussionBehind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis
18 Nov 2024 11:41
No kidding??
Generations have insisted that Capitalist-democracy is a toxic contradiction in terms. An absurdity in which Political power can be bought, and with it, as we are now seeing, Truth and the global environment itself. The machine has never worked and is now only fit for recycling.
These voices have been systematically dismissed and demonised as ‘extremist’.
Unless a genuinely radical politics emerges, based on universal principles, the prospects for civilisation are not rosy.
View discussionTrump’s victory has fractured the western order – leaving Brexit Britain badly exposed
13 Nov 2024 12:26
It’s not complicated.
We are simply watching the inevitable and long-predicted disintegration of the ultimate contradiction in terms called ‘democratic capitalism’. A carbon-driven power-madness which has taken only a handful of generations to destroy the global environment.
It doesn’t take a 10,000 word monograph by Einstein to work out that a system in which power can be bought is inherently anti-democratic, or that concerns for trivial matters like the future of the planet don’t amount to a hill of beans in the crazy cut-throat world of perpetual profit-chasing.
View discussionRemember, remember, the fifth of November, when a bad guy tried to blow up a political system
5 Nov 2024 11:46
A Mega-Psychopath and his Trillionaire cronies may well be in control of America. And the more we know about these ghouls, the less we need to know. News that Polio clinics in Gaza are being bombed is already too disgusting to watch. News of Trump and Musk’s plans to destroy Truth and Science is no consolation.
A world carved up between techno-fascists like Trump, Putin and their Fossil-Fuel Axis, is the nightmare of every generation since 1945. A multiple disaster, but especially to any hopes of curbing global warming.
Whatever result we wake up to, Humanism and democracy remain in crisis. The backlash to a Harris win will be horrific. As will the barbaric mindless malice of a Trump regime. Those offering glib reassurances should consider that the clumsy dictatorships of the C20th did not have our modern means to kill Freedom permanently, and ensure perpetual war.
If Hate and Lies defeat Human values, everything worth caring about will be in danger. And self-isolated little Britain will be more vulnerable than most to the after-shocks.
The latest soundings are not optimistic. All that civilised people can do is prepare for the worst.
View discussionTrump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:47
In response to variation31
Your optimism is touching but totally unconvincing.
You totally underestimate the crisis unfolding of so-called ‘democratic-capitalism’. It was always a contradiction in terms.
Now it is fulfilling its manifest destiny as a botched model for society.
You also forget that since 2020, Trump & Co have succeeded in exterminating rational evidence-based discourse, and replacing it with commodified Hate, the easiest chemical high to manufacture and peddle.
View discussionTrump’s greatest feat has been convincing ordinary Americans that he’s on their side. He is not
29 Oct 2024 11:19
The backlash to a Harris victory may be even worse than a Trump win.
The responsible job now is to prepare for the worst of two evils.
Not that Britain is immune from fascism, as the Farage Hate-Week confirmed.
But it is not a new or crank phenomenon, it is deep in the trashier ends of ‘popular’ culture.
It’s no accident that Queen’s triumphalist anthem steals its chorus from a playground Bully-Chant.
‘No TIME for LO-SERS!’
‘Na-NA na Na-NA!’
View discussionJeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened
24 Oct 2024 11:44
There will have to be a massive Commonwealth Zero Carbon Fund soon anyway. The major donors naturally being those with the greatest historic carbon footprint as a result of their historic involvement in slavery.
Why not kill two birds with one stone and bundle it with reparations?
The money will have to be spent on the same green infrastructure whatever it’s called.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 15:54
In response to HarrytheHawk
The difference is scientifically simple.
Fascist hate mobs depend on Adrenalin. The conflict enzyme.
Peace and Progress depends on Endorphins. The ‘togetherness’ enzyme.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:44
In response to Treflesg
The difference is always clear between a protest for peace and one for war.
More so now than ever this century.
The only confusion is caused by the toxic lies of client media and their fellow-travellers.
The people there know the power of co-operation over conflict. Where Fundamentalist Jews can shake hands with Palestinian youths.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 13:35
In response to jamesoverseas
Fascist anger is not righteous, by definition. It is toxic and iniquitous.
Unless you agree with racism and misanthropy in general.
Anger against the denial or withdrawal of basic inclusive human rights and freedoms is both righteous and justifiable. And vital, as history has shown.
Fascist anger is always in opposition to basic human values. The kind you currently enjoy.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:32
Crowds are defined by their Cause.
Fascist crowds are unpleasant and hateful because racism and misogyny are inherently hateful.
Protests which demand justice and peace are righteous because the denial of justice and peace is a crime. Righteous anger is not hate, it is the engine of progress.
People don’t protest with any real expectation of success, but to feel again the natural human fellowship. A right which is denied them by the demands of career and consumption.
In this way, every mass protest is a radical challenge to the alienating status quo, whatever the cause. And worth documenting for 40 years.
View discussionWhy our ideas about protest and mob psychology are dangerously wrong
23 Oct 2024 11:11
In response to theoverlay
‘Then you also say it’s possible for crowds to feel happy and community spirit even as they burn property and damage.’
Depends on whether you value people before property or not
Burning people inside a refugee hostel is much worse than burning the building.
The law says so.
View discussionElon Musk’s Twitter coup has harmed the right. They are now simply ‘too online’
25 Sep 2024 15:46
It might just still be possible that the nightmare age of Alt-Truth and Fake News is not the one-way street we feared. That the effect is wearing off, and Human Beings are starting to crave Truth as they do plain wholesome bread in their diet.
This creates an opening for the boring, unpopular but truthful Leader. The colourless technocrat who at least believes that 2+2=4.
One thing is certain, the eradication of Science by Carbonist maniacs like Vance cannot go unpunished by Nature.
View discussionRachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened
9 Sep 2024 15:41
In response to Tintenfische
What do we want?
Everything!
When do we want it?
Yesterday!
What we need now is grown up politics which acknowledges the fiscal realities of deathbed capitalism. Not more infantile demands born of Consumerist ‘choice’.
Socialism this is not.
View discussionAre studies of great authors doomed as fewer students take English literature at university?
17 Aug 2024 17:29
In response to seekyapus
You’re living in a world where Criticism is on its deathbed.
Trump’n’Putin’s delirious dystopia is exactly what happens when the critical faculties are allowed to atrophy. As they inevitable do in the Consumerist Nursery where everything and anything must appease the infantile customer, because the customer is always right.
View discussionSay it loud and rejoice: the days of anti-union worker exploitation in Britain are coming to an end
13 Aug 2024 12:17
In response to R4LW198
What is ‘far left’?
Is it related to being ‘left’ behind? Or what my Grannie ‘left’ me in her will?
Or the thief that was crucified on Christ’s ‘left’ hand?
What do you mean?
It describes nothing.
So why use it to confuse yourself and everyone else?
View discussion‘Do you mind listening to that with headphones?’ How one little phrase revolutionised my commute
27 Jul 2024 11:46
People are now so alienated and estranged from each other that they have lost the very concept of private or confidential space.
Nothing matters except the voices in their heads – which must never stop, ever, because silence means thinking. And that would be too painful.
‘Radio silence’ also means a lack of status, and therefore ‘respect’. So the louder the never-ending signal the better.
The result? Public spaces that sound and feel like Bedlam. And no wonder.
View discussionLittleRichardjohn
hectoranddina
Not ‘narcissists’, Psychopaths. The nature of the pathocracy is now quite clear. 20% of CEOs are card carrying psychopaths according to independent studies. Our toxic dog-eat-dog consumerist culture breeds sick people most likely to thrive in a sick society. The world is therefore split between active and potential psychopaths. The former composed of those already bullying their way to positions of power, and all perpetrators of violence. The latter, everyone else.
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